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04 Mar 2015 10:01:48am

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While the Labor party is such an ‘undemocratic swill’ and toadies to the Yanks, I will keep voting for the Greens. The green voters got their wish and stopped the cronies at the gates of the senate!! The Labor advocates should really look at themselves in the mirror and see what sort of world they are creating. So far the vision is as desolate as the poisonous coal mines of the Hunter Valley or the Coal Seam Gas nightmares set in train by the state Labor governments. What is really beautiful, are the ideas behind democracy and the potential outcomes they can deliver. Apparatchiks are what we want to get rid of. Good leadership requires more than some conceited and self satisfied politicians. Democracy should be working at every level of society. Mr Keating is right in that no one should underestimate the savvy of the Australian people. We come from all walks of life and cultures and don’t all pander to the WASP ideologies of days gone by. Dugongs and turtles are dying left, right and centre but I don’t hear any politicians or media moguls asking for a serious inquiry in to these happenings. I suppose there is no money in it like the uranium deposits; although I thought these animals have similar biological constitutions to us humans. Greed and careless technological assessments will destroy future generations who could be our grandchildren. I have grave doubts about the long-term wisdom of many of the Labor/Liberal policies that mainly cater to the large corporate interests that in the long run will enslave us rather than liberate the human spirit and conditions. Labor rarely addresses the freedoms that are due to citizens that are within the subservient workplaces that are mostly run by autocrats; that is they are never voted in. Can this be considered a new form of serfdom?The writer, Richard Flannigan, in one of his talks thought that Senator Bob Brown was as courageous as Nelson Mandela. And I agree with his assessment. Even now Mr Keating comes across like a conservative dinosaur that can’t see the urgent needs of our times that are not driven by money. Capitalism has been an utter failure in most countries and yet we seem to cling to it at our own peril. Capitalism has to serve the people and democracy and not the other way around. Why aren’t the unequal pecuniary powers of corporations checked by special legislation that curb their comparatively superior legal powers? Am I utopian? No, I am just sick and tired of every one’s ( politicians) toadying. The “un-freedom” Richard Flannigan talked about.The Labor Party is just like the description one analyst gave to Pakistan a “friendemy “;( A friend of America one minute and enemy the next.) Just like in the Great Gatsby, Labor’s green light on the hill is receding ever faster with time. It is almost invisible today.